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Fabiano Caruana continues quest for No.1 at Italian team championships — Fabiano Caruana and Gawain Jones, two recent heroes of this column, have been in action once more this week, in the Italian team chess championships at Arvier in the Aosta Valley. Caruana again showed his remarkable stamina as he continued his style of grinding out points in long endgames, as in the puzzle diagram below. However, it seemed at the end of the chess event that he had stretched his reserves too far, when a final round defeat dropped him to No9 in the daily world rankings. Caruana actually played board two on his team for the early rounds due to a cameo appearance by Hikaru Nakamura, his US rival in the world top 10. Nakamura won his first game, settled for two brief draws, including one against Jones, then ...

Chess union's new dress code checkmates plunging necklines — As many of you surely know by now, the European Chess Union has established a dress code for chess players. (Okay, some of you don’t know — you don’t follow chess and you don’t think it’s a sport. Well, friends, at a minimum, it’s “mental sport.” And, as far as I’m concerned, Bobby Fischer was every bit the athlete that Michael Jordan was; both were hyper-competitive and ruthless in their pursuits, plus Fischer was a better trash talker.) Before we detail the dress code — apparently, the bust line has become a problem — as a former non-grandmaster, let me emphatically state my opinion in this sartorial area: Chess needs a dress code like Switzerland needs a navy. Poker needs a dress code. At the moment, all ...

Early Success Is No Guarantee of a Career Among the Chess Elite — Vaibhav Suri became India’s newest chess grandmaster last Sunday when he won the Luc Open in Lille, France. At 15 years, 2 months and 21 days old, he is the 27th youngest grandmaster in history. Some chess players who have become a grandmaster at such a young age have gone on to join the chess elite, but others have floundered. And some relatively late bloomers have risen to the top. Sergey Karjakin, 22, who was born in Ukraine, holds the record as the youngest grandmaster (12 years, 7 months) and is among the successful chess prodigies: he is now No. 6 in the world. The top-ranked chess player, Magnus Carlsen, 21, of Norway, became a grandmaster four months after his 13th birthday. But the Chinese chess player ...

World, US chess titles up for grabs this week — It may not be the sexiest chess pairing of all time, but we have a legitimate world chess championship match on tap and one that could prove more entertaining than some anticipate. Opening ceremonies will be held Thursday at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery for the 12-game, three-week FIDE world title match between chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Russian-born challenger GM Boris Gelfand, based in Israel. Game 1 will be played Friday, with play concluding May 28. If the score is tied after 12 games, the players will play a four-game rapid playoff (Game/25) on May 30. Gelfand, who leapfrogged several higher-ranked chess players to qualify for the finals, is a distinct underdog, but he is a hard man to beat, and ...

Women in Chess: A Few Tales — Lurking in the background, hiding their identity, they seem mysterious, magical, beautiful. At first, they observed the game of chess from a distance, but as centuries went by, women were drawn closer to the chess board. Still, for ages they could not play chess in public and it took some courage and determination to break into the male-dominated game. Let's have a look at some who paved the way. Three Sisters. Women have come a long way since 1555 when the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola finished her famous painting "The Chess Game." Did Anguissola play chess? Her patron was the Spanish King Philip II, who also supported Ruy Lopez de Segura, the priest who gave us the Spanish Game ...

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